do you have your shampoo etc 'out'?

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As in on display in the bathroom?

We're in a 'do up' house and the 'doing up' is taking a lot longer than planned! After living in a total mess for 4+ years the bathroom is nearly done and I'm sick to the back teeth of living in crap and I'm craving clutter free.

Our bathroom is quite big but there's no obvious place for a cupboard.

Eventually there'll be one on the landing right outside the bathroom door so everything will go in there.

Sorry - I'm waffling but I'm lying in the bath looking at the shower gel / soaps etc and they're getting on my nerves. they don't match my bathroom

No 2nd toilet until the year after next at least when downstairs gets
started.

Do you have your Head and Shoulders out on 'display' or do you put your toiletries away? ?

That's actually how things WILL be when I am in charge.

xDP would have been minimalist but
a- he lived with me
b - he wasn't actually tidy enough to maintain minimalism

Current flatmate is a ridiculous hoarder and has a LOT of shit all around the bath, including things that I swear have not been touched in 6 months.

My cupboards are full of other things no room for the kettle! Plus it gets boiled many times a day so would be a total faff to keep getting it in and out.

Art - we are digital for all bank statements and get school info by e-mail but there are some things that are still paper.

My house is actually very tidy, but I don't get on with the minimal look, I need things around me.

I've just had quick look at this thread and I am astounded that there are people in this world who put the shampoo away every time they use it, and others who carry wash bags round their own houses.

Spares go in the cupboard. The stuff you are using stays out. Even DH, who has massive urges to throw everything out/put everything away (except for his books and clothes, obviously...), leaves all his clutter on the rack in the shower.

Even without hot drinks, kettles are used for boiling water for pasta/rice/potatoes/etc.

Exactly Trills. Our kettle get used several times a day.

Yes, our kettle is probably on at least 5 times a day (more at weekends), toaster and coffee machine at least once each. Stand mixer stays out and is used several times a week.

Can't you put a cupboard under the sink? I have lived in some pretty small houses, but there was always space for storage somewhere in the bathroom.

I stopped leaving shampoo etc. out when it kept getting used in 'potions' by the children. It doesn't take that long to put it back and it makes it much, much easier to clean the bath.

Why do people boil kettle for pasta/ rice? It's going in a pan anyway... I just boil water in the pan then add what needs to cook.
I don't think they really even sell kettles in America

Because it boils a lot faster in a kettle than if you put a cold pan of water on the hob.

Vivacia - sorry to hear you had such a grim bathroom growing up :( It is unusual for each family member to take a washbag/basket to the bathroom every time they have a shower etc. To me it would feel like I didn't really live there. However, if you are all happy with it, then it doesn't matter what other people do really does it.

When we did the bathroom this year, I got the builder to put a recess in the wall by the shower controls he didn't do it to my specs and it pisses me off A LOT which is due to that, only barely big enough to take two different types of shampoo/conditioner/shower gel without being too cluttered of course it would have been lovely and spacious had he f'ing listened to me nothing else around the shower or bath. I shower twice a day and wash my hair once a day, there's no way I'm getting stuff in and out that often, no way.

Sink - that only has the pump bottle of hand soap. Toothbrushes etc are in a cupboard over the sink. Other small bits in there, bigger bits in the 2 drawers under the sink. There's a basket of bathroom cleaning stuff under the sink cabinet, but you can't see it.

Pretty minimalist, but not 'empty' imo. I couldn't bear to live in a house with a million different products everywhere.

No toaster (use the grill, but if I had one it would live in the cupboard.

Kettle - depends, if DN is living here then it's on the side as she drinks her body weight in tea, if she (or anyone else) isn't here then it's in the cupboard as it's rarely used.

Microwave is on the bench, but there isn't anywhere else for it or it would be there. It's kind of like a fridge or oven though, I don't see it as a 'small appliance' like a kettle or toaster.

Coffee machine is on the bench and gets a hammering.

Nothing else is on the bench, so the coffee machine feels very, very important

Maybe, but I can wait the 2/3 mins it takes. It takes me that long to get the rest of the ingredients out and start chopping stuff anyway.

Art because until the kitchen gets redone (and frankly after the bathroom nightmare it might be quite some time off yet!!) I have an old electric oven and it takes a month of Sunday's to boil a pan of water, it's much quicker just to put an inch or so in that and get it heating up and put the kettle on for the rest of it if I need a full pan of water.

I try to put everything away, toothbrushes, the lot. I am quite messy, but hate a cluttered bathroom.

I have no proper cupboard space at the moment so have bought a big white wicker basket from BM to hide most of the stuff.

Shower gel, shampoo, etc still sits on floor of shower, but only those being used. And only because I can't actually put a cupboard in the shower.

If it was 2-3 minutes I'd be fine with it - it's a lot longer. Next time I want a pan of hot water I'll time it and let you know I suspect more like 10?

it is a lot quicker

I am wondering why things being out is such a heinous crime

I am still struggling with the idea of the kettle being shut away in a cupboard.

I reckon (because I never do it) at least five minutes to boil enough hot water in a pan for pasta here (gas hob). Or about 2 mins in the electric kettle which sits next to it, bit of a no-brainer for me. It only takes me about 2 seconds to get the pasta packet out of the cupboard and tip it in, so I want the water boiling as fast as possible (we eat pasta at least twice a week).

We have two toasters on the worktop. When DH and I started living together we each preferred our own toasters and wouldn't compromise (his is more reliable but mine takes larger slices) so just kept them both. Now I've written that it sounds completely barmy - I wish I had one toaster tidily sitting in a cupboard!

I've not read all of this yet, so forgive me. But why are people nipping each other about how they live? Your own home is exactly that, your own - to do as you wish in. If people want 30 bottles out, or use washbags then that's their own choice. The things people choose to be catty about is what never ceases to amaze me.

Out - shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, toothbrushes & toothpaste.
Cupboard - hairspray, perfume, sanitary products, body lotion.

Out - toaster, kettle & fruit bowl.
Cupboard - all other food.

So middle of the road in all things.

I have a freestanding chrome storage thing at the end of the bath. It has three baskets in a sort of frame. The things we use everyday are in the top one, so easily accessible from the overbath shower, and other stuff is in the lower ones.

In the kitchen I try to keep the worktops as clutter free as possible, but toaster and kettle are always out, as is my mini-chopper as I use it a lot.

I would love to have things neatly put away in cupboards but am married to a man who believes everything should be lined up on shelves, visible at all times. Flyspray, athlete's foot powder, everything, all there for guest to see if they use our family bathroom, which they have to at present.

In my house, the shampoo is out and sits on the ledge at the edge of the shower cubicle. I hate it like that, but there is nowhere else to put it. Soap is in the wee soap dish that is attached to the shower. I have 'a rule' about not opening a new bottle of shampoo/conditioner until the old one is used. I grew up in a house with dozens of half used bottles of this that and the other sitting about and hence I am borderline obsessive about it.

In the kitchen the coffee machine, kettle and stand mixer sit on the bench. Everything else goes in a cupboard, including the microwave, toaster and food processor. It is a tiny inconvenience to get them out when I need them (well, I don't get the microwave out, I just open the cupboard door and use it) compared with a huge inconvenience that it would cause me to have them sitting on my worktop annoying me by their presence.

Our bathroom has a cupboard at the end of the bath on the opposite end to where the shower head is. I shower with the door of the cupboard open and put stuff back right away, then close the cupboard at the end. It doesn't take any more time than it would to put stuff on the side

Vivacia no need for the what's wrong with being clean? What's so great about mess/muck/dust/grime ?

Many people in the world, including children like your young self, do not have the luxury of deciding to be clean or mucky. Strange that in the C21st century first world people who like to be clean & tidy are thought of as less intellectual/emotionally healthy.

And yes, my toaster is kept in the cupboard